By Robert Scucci | Published 18 seconds ago Confession time. Being a married man, I’ve watched the entire run of Gilmore Girls more times than I’ll ever care to admit because it’s my wife’s favorite comfort show to watch while she’s falling asleep. Since I have a projector in my bedroom that takes up the … Read more
By Jonathan Klotz | Published 30 seconds ago These days, thanks to increased ticket prices, it seems like every year a different film is setting records, whether it’s Oppenheimer and Barbie or The Super Mario Bros. Movie, records have been falling left and right, but even then, no one could have predicted the explosive debut of Ne Zha 2. If you … Read more
By Jonathan Klotz | Published 27 seconds ago Science fiction is both a genre unto itself and the perfect base to support any other genre you can think of, from horror (Alien), drama (Arrival), comedy (Spaceballs), and even romance (Upside Down), but nothing has meshed as perfectly as sci-fi Westerns. On the surface, the two … Read more
By Robert Scucci | Published 35 seconds ago At the ripe old age of 36, I’m finally at that point in my life where teenagers are beginning to scare me. Sure, I’m not quite occupying “old man yells at cloud” territory, but if I’m walking alone down a city street and I see a bunch … Read more
By Chris Snellgrove | Published 4 seconds ago Last year, the film Oppenheimer took the world by storm, sweeping the Oscars and leaving a lasting cultural impact on everyone who saw it. In terms of tone and subject matter, that movie was the polar opposite of Star Trek, a franchise that is all about exploring … Read more
By Robert Scucci | Published 25 seconds ago As an avid musician, I’ve always had a disdain for shows like Behind the Music, as well as the onslaught of musical biopics that have tainted the cinema landscape for the past 20 years. The primary reason I dislike this form of revisionist history is because of … Read more
By Chris Snellgrove | Published 26 seconds ago Star Trek has generally had good season finales. In fact, outside of The Next Generation’s “Shades of Grey” (which was a crummy clip show episode), fans have been pretty happy with how seasons wrapped up. That’s why we were so surprised to discover that one of the … Read more
By Robert Scucci | Published 34 seconds ago They say that you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet because there is so much misinformation floating around out there, but sometimes we can’t help ourselves. For as long as humanity has had the ability to tell stories, folklore and tall tales have been forms … Read more
By Robert Scucci | Published 29 seconds ago I never thought there’d be a time in my life when I’d actually root for an insurance agent, but Cedar Rapids actually almost had me for a second. I’ll admit that I initially wrote this movie off as another party movie that doesn’t have much of a … Read more
By Jonathan Klotz | Published 10 seconds ago 1977 changed everything for science fiction with the surprise success of George Lucas’s adventure, Star Wars: A New Hope, and Steven Spielberg’s thoughtful dramatic thriller, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It turns out, there was an audience for each of them, and while the influence of … Read more
